The Magnificent Moodies
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| Studio album by The Moody Blues | ||||
| Released | 23 July 1965 | |||
| Recorded | October 1964 – March 1965 | |||
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| Length | 34:23 | |||
| Label | Decca | |||
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| Go Now: The Moody Blues #1 | |
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| Studio album by The Moody Blues | |
| Released | 28 July 1965 |
| Recorded | October 1964 – March 1965 |
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| Length | 34:03 |
| Label | London |
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The Magnificent Moodies is the 1965 debut album by The Moody Blues, first released in the UK, and the first and only album featuring their R&B line-up of guitarist Denny Laine, bassist Clint Warwick, keyboardist Mike Pinder, flautist–percussionist Ray Thomas, and drummer Graeme Edge. Lead vocals were shared by Laine, Pinder and Thomas. The album is a collection of R&B and Merseybeat songs, including the cover of "Go Now", produced by Alex Wharton, that had been a Number 1 hit single earlier that year. For the U.S. release, on London Records, with the title of Go Now – The Moody Blues #1, four songs were replaced and the tracks re-ordered.
The album did not make the Record Retailer/Music Week chart even though it reached number 5 in August 1965 in the New Musical Express album chart. The U.S. album did not make the Billboard chart.
The sleevenotes on the original UK release include an (undated) review by Virginia Ironside, music critic of The Daily Mail, which concludes, "With the Moody Blues, all you need to write is "MAGNIFICENT" in pink lipstick and leave it at that"; and a prose poem by Donovan recommending the band. All the tracks on the UK release were produced by Denny Cordell; except for "Go Now", which was produced by Alex Wharton.
Laine and Warwick left the group in 1966, and were replaced by guitarist Justin Hayward and bassist John Lodge respectively.
At the height of The Moody Blues' U.S. success in 1970, Deram Records reissued the U.S. version of the album with a new cover and title, In the Beginning (DES-18051). As with the original album, the reissue did not chart.
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